# 消費税法 / Consumption Tax Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)

- Law: 消費税法 (Consumption Tax Act), 昭和六十三年法律第百八号
- English title "Consumption Tax Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)（仕入れに係る対価の返還等を受けた場合の仕入れに係る消費税額の控除の特例に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4061-109/art-15`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-15
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### 第十五条（仕入れに係る対価の返還等を受けた場合の仕入れに係る消費税額の控除の特例に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Special Provisions on Deduction of Consumption Tax on Purchases in the Case of Receipt of a Refund, etc. of Consideration for Purchases
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4061-109/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  事業者が、適用日前に国内において行った課税仕入れにつき、適用日以後に新消費税法第三十二条第一項（仕入れに係る対価の返還等を受けた場合の仕入れに係る消費税額の控除の特例）に規定する仕入れに係る対価の返還等を受けた場合には、当該仕入れに係る対価の返還等に係る同条の規定による仕入れに係る消費税額の控除の計算については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4061-109/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-15/par-1</sup>
If a business operator, with respect to a taxable purchase made in Japan before the application date, receives on or after the application date a refund, etc. of consideration for purchases prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (1) (Special Provisions on Deduction of Amount of Consumption Tax on Purchases When Refunds, etc. of Consideration for Purchases Are Received) of the New Consumption Tax Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern the computation of the deduction of consumption tax on purchases under the provisions of that Article for that refund, etc. of consideration for purchases.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4061-109/art-15/par-1: 新消費税法第三十二条第一項 → 消費税法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-32/par-1
- suppl-4061-109/art-15/par-1: 同条 → 消費税法 第三十二条 (Article 32), art-32 — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/art-32

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 消費税法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-1/par-1
- 消費税法 附則第二十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/consumption-tax-act/suppl-4061-109/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/363AC0000000108/suppl-4061-109/art-24/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 消費税法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/363AC0000000108/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 消費税法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1176), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch consumption-tax-act-20261013T073630-031, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 消費税法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
